FIVAPE's media watch on vaping in France and around the world: October 2025
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10/31/25 | LA PRESSE DE LA MANCHE
Calls for mobilization in the local media are multiplying, as in La Presse de la Manche. In Cherbourg, meet us on Wednesday November 5, from 10 to 12 am, Place du Général de Gaulle, there's going to be a lot of people there!
"Our future is at stake now": Petit Vapoteur calls for first mobilization in Cherbourg
31/10/25 | VAPING POST
From the Vaping Post, a handy tool for following the progress of the Finance Bill in real time.
The political crisis of vaping in France.
10/31/25 | L'OBSERVATEUR
More and more media outlets are taking an interest in the situation of vape traders. Don't hesitate to contact them!
Economy - Douai: an electronic cigarette vendor worries about the future of the sector
31/10/25 | LA RÉPUBLIQUE DU CENTER
The regional media are starting to announce mobilizations to defend vape jobs!
30/10/25 | VAPING POST
Like all major democracies, France has a complex political system. To help you follow the progress of Article 23, find out where it stands and what the possibilities are, we've put together a summary. To help you understand.
France: Finance bill and assumptions on article 23
10/29/25 | LE QUOTIDIEN DU MÉDECIN
The Société Francophone de Tabacologie's publication of its experts' consensus on the usefulness of vaping for smoking cessation is finally finding some echo in the medical press.
10/28/25 | RADIO FRANCE
A lively debate between Pr Amine Benyamina - specialist in addictology and head of the psychiatry and addictology department at the Paul-Brousse hospital (AP-HP), president of the Fédération française d'addictologie, president of the Addictions association, president of Respadd - and Marion Catellin, director of the Alliance Contre le Tabac.
Is taxing electronic cigarettes a bad idea?
28/10/25 | VAPING POST
While the EU wants to impose a minimum tax on all tobacco products, including e-liquids, Italy is up in arms. In a reasoned opinion sent to the European Commission, the Italian Parliament denounces a reform deemed disproportionate, centralizing and dangerous for its economy.
Italy takes its turn in opposing European taxation of vape products
28/10/25 | FRANCE INFO
The Alliance Contre le Tabac advocates the principle of taxing vaping, the No. 1 aid for quitting smoking. Tobacologists disagree.
10/27/25 | CNEWS
The anger of consumers and vape professionals is on full display in the media. Let's get on with it!
Budget 2026: the vape industry takes aim at the government and launches a petition
10/26/25 | AIDUCE
AIDUCE press release: the Association Indépendante des Utilisateurs de Cigarette Électronique (Independent Association of Electronic Cigarette Users) calls on consumers to rally around NE TUEZ PAS LA VAPE and denounces all the measures in Article 23 of the Finance Bill concerning vaping: a tax on vape is a promotion of smoking, you can't balance a nation's books by killing its citizens.
10/29/25 | SOCIÉTÉ FRANCOPHONE DE TABACOLOGIE
The SFT is THE learned society for practicing physicians and tobaccologists in the field, and its authority and legitimacy are major, particularly with regard to the health authorities. This scientific publication presents the results of a Delphi consensus survey carried out by SFT experts on electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation. According to the method used - Likert scale - 25 of the 34 statements were considered definitive, 20 reached consensus and 5 did not.
The publication is freely available on BMC
10/26/25 | LA TRIBUNE
The media are beginning to understand. Vape is tobacco's #1 enemy...
Taxes on vaping: "a scandalous gift to the tobacco industry", denounces the sector
25/10/25 | RMC BFMTV
The media are strongly echoing the anger of vaping consumers and employees. They point out the Don't kill vape petition and provide their readers with the link.
You may soon no longer be able to buy vaping products over the Internet
25/10/25 | LIBÉRATION
Investigating the vape lobbies! Chez Pol is a political newsletter, reserved for subscribers and followed by all our elected representatives. FIVAPE assumes and asserts its actions to mobilize the sector's employees and their millions of customers in the face of the measures in Article 23, deleterious to vaping and the independent sector.
Budget 2026: MPs clash over vape taxation
10/23/25 | BFMTV
Professionals are extremely concerned about the 3,000 jobs immediately threatened by a ban on online sales, customers are dismayed, tobacco specialists (Marion Adler) are reacting, and the Ne tuez pas la vape petition is back in the spotlight!
End of online sales: vaping pros worried
23/10/25 | VAPING POST
Clarification needed. Reminder: Article 23 was adopted in its entirety by the Finance Committee. The "excise duty = 0" amendment only concerns the year 2026 and does not in any way call into question the principle of the tax, nor the package of measures that are deleterious to our industry. Mobilization must continue and intensify, as the text will now be debated in public session. Our elected representatives must hear us.
Tax withdrawn? The great misunderstanding
10/23/25 | TF1
The Ne tuez pas la vape petition calls on the media. This allows vape professionals to explain in detail the health, social and economic impact of the measures set out in Article 23 of the Finance Bill. Unfair and costly taxes are just the tip of the iceberg...
Vapotage: ban on online sales, tax... The government's plan makes the sector cough
10/23/25 | LCP
La Chaine Parlementaire - LCP - records the day's events in the Finance Committee. Note that the "abolition" of the tax announced in the headline only concerns the year 2026. It should be noted that the article mentions and links to the CHANGE petition, which has gained in visibility in the media today. Let's keep sharing it!
Vapotage: in committee, MPs abolish the tax planned by the government
23/10/25 | VAPING POST
Do you have one or more vape stores? Read this article. I mean it.
The end of vape stores in France
23/10/25 | RMC BFMTV
The media are beginning to echo the Don't kill vape petition, and to explain a little better the ins and outs of Article 23 of the PLF, which is not just about a proposed tax: status of vape= tobacco, ban on online sales, socio-economic consequences, loss of local jobs...
You may soon no longer be able to buy vaping products over the Internet
10/23/25 | LE FIGARO
According to FIVAPE, 3,000 jobs in online sales would "disappear instantly", as Le Petit Vapoteur testifies. A petition has been launched among users, and has already attracted 120,000 signatories. Vaping has helped millions of people quit smoking, but the Comité National Contre le Tabagisme "disagrees", considering that "these products are highly addictive, and their marketing targets young people in particular".
"600 jobs could disappear": the 2026 budget worries online vaping professionals
22/10/25 | OUEST FRANCE
The Comité National Contre le Tabagisme applauds a long-standing request.
Budget 2026. End of online sales, taxation: the secteur de la vape mis sous pression
10/22/25 | FRANCE 3 NORMANDIE
FIVAPE members mobilize the local press. The media start talking about the petition Don't kill vape. Let's get on with it!
Broadcast on France 3 Normandie
10/21/25 | FÉDÉRATION ADDICTION
Fédération Addiction takes a firm stance against taxes on vaping: At a time when Santé publique France has just announced that 4 million smokers have quit smoking in ten years, taxing vape would be tantamount to weakening one of the most effective levers in the fight against smoking, and pushing some users back towards smoked tobacco, which is far more harmful.
2026 budgets: Fédération Addiction defends harm reduction, prevention and access to care
10/21/25 | FRANCE 3
Taxes, a ban on online sales... users' anger continues unabated: "I tell myself they're not thinking about our health". Professionals are also worried about losing their jobs. They are calling on their customers to sign the petition!
"We took up e-cigarettes because they were cheaper": vapoteurs angry at proposed tax
10/21/25 | FRANCE 3
Jean Moiroud, President of FIVAPE, is a live guest tonight at 9pm on Oneshot media.
Special broadcast Article 23 - VAPE IN DANGER
10/19/25 | SANTÉ PUBLIQUE FRANCE
Santé publique France launches the 10th edition of Mois Sans Tabac. No. 1 and at the forefront of the fight against smoking, vape enthusiasts are ready - as they are every day of the year - to welcome the 15 million smokers who need to quit quickly, effectively and painlessly.
Mois sans tabac 2025: the 10th edition is launched!
19/10/25 | LE FIGARO
Anger among consumers and professionals, incomprehension among tobaccologists, but there is a debate: the 2 million people who say they have used vaping to quit smoking (Eurobarometer up to 2023) would be "a very modest sample compared to all the young people for whom vaping is a gateway to tobacco".
Budget 2026: the future vaping tax agitates consumers and divides healthcare professionals
18/10/25 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
A salutary plea that we hope will be heard: read and share - Pr Bertrand Dautzenberg, 50 years of fighting against tobacco, authority on vaping, author of the first report on vape in France, at the request of a health minister, Marisol Touraine in 2013.
Stop the nonsense of attacking vape, an effective product to accompany the end of smoking!
18/10/25 | LE PARISIEN
"The tobacco industry can't be unhappy that its main competitor is finally being taxed," says Antoine Flahault, a public health physician. "Bernard Basset, Honorary President of the Addictions France association, agrees: "Be careful of the signal sent out, because we mustn't discourage people who use vape to quit!
Taxing electronic cigarettes? "Beware of the signal being sent out, warn doctors
18/10/25 | RADIO FRANCE
"We realize that vape is really a help in smoking cessation, so it's a very bad idea to tax related products: it will diminish the help and cause some people to go back to smoking." - Marion ADLER - Doctor, head of the addictology department at the Antoine Béclère hospital in Clamart.
18/10/25 | VAPING POST
EU - Hungarian Commissioner Oliver Várhelyi, in charge of revising the TPD, mired in scandal.
18/10/25 | FRANCE INFO
Santé publique France wonders... However, the Eurobarometer clearly indicates that, up to 2023, 2 million French people claim to have used vape to help them quit smoking. Although we still need to take a step back, these recent studies tend to confirm the interest and effectiveness of vape in helping people to stop smoking," concludes Viêt Nguyen Thanh.
18/10/25 | LE PARISIEN
"The tobacco industry can't be unhappy that its main competitor is finally being taxed," says Antoine Flahault, a public health physician. "Bernard Basset, Honorary President of the Addictions France association, agrees: "Be careful of the signal sent out, because we mustn't discourage people who use vape to quit!
Taxing electronic cigarettes? "Beware of the signal being sent out, warn doctors
18/10/25 | L'INSOUMISSION
According to Jean Moiroud, President of the French Vape industry, this tax, which would bring in around 100 million euros, will have a disastrous perverse effect: it will discourage 5% of the three million vapoteurs. Immediate effect: this tax will encourage people to switch back to conventional cigarettes.
Taxes on e-liquids: Lecornu urges the French to start smoking again
17/10/25 | LIBÉRATION
Santé Publique France "forgot" to mention vapotage in its communication on the decline in smoking in France. We learn here from AFP that the figures on vapotage will be published... on December 3. After Mois Sans Tabac.
Addiction Smoking: a quarter of French adults still smoke
10/17/25 | RADIO FRANCE
"We realize that vape is really a help in smoking cessation, so it's a very bad idea to tax related products: it will diminish the help and cause some people to go back to smoking." - Marion ADLER - Doctor, head of the addictology department at the Antoine Béclère hospital in Clamart.
10/17/25 | LA DÉPÊCHE
Article 23 of the Finance Bill - Consumers and professionals angry: "We are encouraged to stop smoking. We stop smoking with the electronic cigarette, and now we're being taxed on nicotine", grumbles Fanny - Taxing vaping liquid is "a cataclysm for independent vape", reacts Fivape.
Budget 2026: e-cigarette liquid soon to be taxed, at what price should it be sold?
10/17/25 | FRANCE INFO
Consumer anger: "I think it's pathetic because it's a good substitute" - Olivia
"It's pitiful": the future tax on vaping is already making consumers cough
10/17/25 | SANTÉ PUBLIQUE FRANCE
Communiqué Santé publique France: 4 million fewer smokers over the last 10 years: excellent news! But how is it possible that there's not a word about vape, nor any recognition for the professionals who have been supporting it for 10 years, when the latest Eurobarometer (up to 2023) indicates that 2 million French people have quit smoking thanks to vapotage?
Sharp decline in smoking in France: 4 million fewer daily smokers in 10 years
16/10/25 | RMC BFMTV
"It pisses me off... We're encouraged to stop smoking. We stop smoking with the electronic cigarette, and now we're being taxed on the nicotine in the electronic cigarette. I think it's a bit excessive.
"One more piece of crap": a new tax on e-cigarette e-liquids raises eyebrows
16/10/25 | RMC BFMTV
Some very angry consumers: "For years they've been telling us that we should raise the price of cigarettes to get people to stop, and now they want to tax the best thing for quitting even more. It's hypocritical... It's even worse. It's petty..."
"One more piece of crap": a new tax on e-cigarette e-liquids raises eyebrows
16/10/25 | TF1
Consumers' anger, doctors' stupefaction, disillusioned professionals... the insane principle of taxing people to stop smoking goes down very badly with everyone.
"It's taxing stop smoking": a tax on vaping products in the 2026 budget
16/10/25 | RMC BFMTV
Tax on vaping: logical or scandalous? Michel Cymes' answer: it's incomprehensible...
Tax on vaping: "Vaping is a good aid to weaning", says Michel Cymes
16/10/25 | LE FIGARO
Article 23 - Finance bill. AFP gives the floor to Jean Moiroud, President of FIVAPE, to explain the "shock" for the vape sector, and denounce a desire to dismantle the tobacco industry's independent sector.
E-cigarette: vaping products to be taxed 30 to 50 cents per 10 ml bottle in draft budget
16/10/25 | FRANCE INFO
FIVAPE's members are seeing an unprecedented wave of consumer anger. Killing vape and the independent tobacco industry just won't do! The lobbies, the government and elected representatives must prepare for an historic revolt.
"It's pitiful": the future tax on vaping is already making consumers cough
15/10/25 | RMC BFMTV
Jean Moiroud, President of FIVAPE, denounces the maneuvers used to equate vape with tobacco and tax consumers, which is counterproductive for public health. His speech at 1:34.
The complete Morning of October 15 - 5am/7am
15/10/25 | LA TRIBUNE
Sébastien Lecornu didn't listen to vape professionals, he decides to tax stop smoking. 4 million French people affected, thousands of local businesses and jobs at risk.
Plastic, vaping, chronic diseases: the surprise taxes in the Lecornu budget
14/10/25 | VAPING POST
While rumors are swirling in France about taxing vape = smoking cessation, on the other side of the world, Health NZ, the national agency responsible for the management and delivery of health services in New Zealand, wants to offer vaping kits to smokers in advance.
New Zealand: the country is looking for a supplier of electronic cigarettes
12/10/25 | FRANCE 24
Singapore. Prohibition and repression of vaping. Black market. Mafia. Health crisis. Cigarettes are still allowed, even if you can also take drugs by smoking them.
"Zombies": Singapore cracks down on e-cigarettes containing drugs
12/10/25 | LA DÉPÊCHE
SFT member Dr Marion Adler, a tobaccologist and addictologist at the Antoine-Béclère hospital (AP-HP), reacts to the WHO alert on the rise of vaping among young people. She defends a nuanced approach: electronic cigarettes, she says, are first and foremost a competitor to tobacco.
09/10/25 | LE FIGARO
New rumor of taxing vaping on top of the 20% VAT. Taxing the No. 1 aid for quitting smoking is implausible and unjustifiable. It's punitive for users and for the independent industry in the face of the tobacco lobbies.
E-cigarettes: towards a "lower" tax rate than tobacco in the draft budget
08/10/25 | PLANET OF THE VAPES
To "protect public health and curb vaping", Ireland taxes vape. Another victory for the tobacco industry and its monopoly on cigarettes.
08/10/25 | VAPING POST
In this article, Alliance Contre le Tabac: "calls for neutral packs, LIKE FOR TOBACCO, to combat manufacturers' marketing". These "neutral packs" would not be "neutral" at all, they would say VAPE = TOBACCO. This means misleading smokers about the relative risks (which are considerably different). This irresponsible demand would ultimately help protect the tobacco industry's monopoly on cigarette sales.
E-cigarettes: more and more teenagers using them, worries the WHO
08/10/25 | VAPING POST
Panic in the Czech Republic. The out-of-control cannabinoids spreading through the black market are prompting stricter regulations on conventional products, even though millions of people use them safely to stop smoking.
Czech Republic: the country bans sucralose and strengthens its legislation on vaping
08/10/25 | VAPING POST
WHO makes a fool of itself. The media relayed the moral panic, but apparently not a single journalist opened the report in question. Thanks to Vaping Post for this decryption.
WHO publishes a new report with fanciful figures
08/10/25 | FRANCE INFO
In France, millions of smokers have quit thanks to vape, and over the last 10 years, youth smoking has been divided by 5 (OFDT, ESPAD survey). But the WHO continues its insane crusade against the N°1 aid tool, while there are still 1.2 billion smokers in the world.
WHO warns of new e-cigarette addiction targeting children
06/10/25 | VAPING POST
E-liquid manufacturers exporting to the UK have been hit by a new tax and will have to get organized. Read all about it.
United Kingdom: how can you continue to sell your e-liquids after October 2026?
05/10/25 | LE FIGARO
With the same exposure to tobacco, women are up to 1.7 times more likely than men to develop lung cancer. Today, lung cancer kills more women than breast cancer. In twenty years, the proportion of women hospitalized for lung cancer has risen from 16% to almost 35%.
Prof. Marie-Pierre Revel: "Lung cancer now kills more women than breast cancer".
04/1O/25 | FRANCE INFO
Very educational report on attempts to quit smoking. The problem is that the No. 1 aid tool in terms of performance x effectiveness is once again being "forgotten". Despite being scientifically validated by numerous studies, unlike hypnosis, vape is subject to an omission that cannot be involuntary.
03/10/25 | FRANCE 3
This young man, visibly predisposed to the risks of addiction of all kinds (common liability), was trapped by drug traffickers. The ill-prepared ban on puffs - without any consultation with professionals - has led to the explosion of a totally uncontrollable black market.
"I started vomiting foam": in the hell of the drug "Pète ton crâne", the words of a survivor